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October 2013 Archives

Saturday October 26, 2013

Myths and legends surround the remote Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. For three generations, one Madelinot family has assumed the task of researching the hundreds of sunken ship disasters from which many of these stories arise.

Saturday October 5, 2013

At the turn of the century, in a rural corner of New Brunswick, a boy was born whose life and learning would lead him to revolutionize the nature of international law. This is the story of John Peters Humphrey, a disabled man who fought for global human rights and was the principal author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Interwoven with John's story is that of another remarkable person. From the same small town as Humphrey, thirteen-year-old Abigail Godreau is an ambassador for War Amps and an inspiration to her peers.